饮食,还有整体的食物环境,包括对人类健康有直接和间接影响的各种重要因素。生态区是以地域方式进行农村发展的地理区域,利用有机食品和农业实践,和原则,并促进可持续社区和粮食系统。然而,到目前为止,很少注意量化生活在这些可持续过渡地区的公民的健康方面。项目“可持续消费对健康影响评估指标”,在生态区域的有机学校餐(INSUM)旨在确定和讨论研究方法和指标,可用于有效地测量身体,心理,和生态区域公民的社会健康维度,与他们饮食中有机食品的摄入量有关。在本文中,我们专注于身体(身体)健康维度。举行了为期两天的研讨会,以跨学科的方式讨论合适的方法,国际专家组。结果显示了常用的测量饮食摄入量的工具的局限性(例如,依靠参与者的记忆),和营养生物标志物(例如,与特定摄入量的相关性变化),以了解饮食摄入量和饮食对健康的影响。为了调查这个问题的复杂性,最合适的方法似乎是将传统的身体和心理健康标记与微生物组等新兴指标相结合,营养基因组学,代谢组学,或炎性生物标志物。使用新的,数字,非侵入性,和可穿戴技术来监测指标可以补充未来的研究。我们得出结论,未来的研究应该采用系统性的,多学科方法,不仅结合躯体和心理健康和社会福祉(MHSW)的指标,而且考虑有机饮食对健康的潜在益处以及与食物环境相关的可持续性方面。
Diets, but also overall food environments, comprise a variety of significant factors with direct and indirect impacts on human health. Eco-Regions are geographical areas with a territorial approach to rural development, utilizing organic food and farming practices, and principles and promoting sustainable communities and food systems. However, so far, little attention has been given to quantifying aspects of the health of citizens living in these sustainable transition territories. The project \"
Indicators for Assessment of Health Effects of Consumption of Sustainable, Organic School Meals in Eco-Regions\" (INSUM) aims to identify and discuss research approaches and
indicators that could be applied to effectively measure the somatic, mental, and social health dimensions of citizens in Eco-Regions, linked to the intake of organic foods in their diets. In this paper, we focus on the somatic (physical) health dimension. A two-day workshop was held to discuss suitable methodology with an interdisciplinary, international group of experts. The results showed the limitations of commonly used tools for measuring dietary intake (e.g., relying on the memory of participants), and nutritional biomarkers (e.g., variations in correlations with specific intakes) for research understanding dietary intake and the health effects of diets. To investigate the complexity of this issue, the most suitable approach seems to be the combination of traditional markers of physical and mental health alongside emerging
indicators such as the microbiome, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, or inflammatory biomarkers. Using new, digital, non-invasive, and wearable technologies to monitor
indicators could complement future research. We conclude that future studies should adopt systemic, multidisciplinary approaches by combining not only
indicators of somatic and mental health and social wellbeing (MHSW) but also considering the potential benefits of organic diets for health as well as aspects of sustainability connected to food environments.